Category: Psychology Publisher: M/S
Pages: 60
Copyright: March 3, 2006
The account of various men and women who are alcoholics and who I have called for the purpose of this book ,Steamboats .
Each Chapter is dedicated to a particular Steamboat .
STEAMBOATS
By Paul McCann
Authors Preface
This book is dedicated to a group of alcoholics who I call Steamboats.
In writing this book I did years of research and lived in many places around the world . From the gutter to the street . From the street to the bed sit flat .
From that to different homes and shelters . In every place I roamed the story remained the same . Alcoholism and its victims . To live as a Ghetto man you meet all kinds of people who in turn lead you to others . It’s a sad picture but a real one . The story of the Steamboat is one that the world doesn’t want to hear . It is too hard as issue to cope with . It is hard to tell but I believe it is an important story of life .
Excerpt
Imagine if you can a pressure cooker inside your mind , that is boiling under a raging flame fueled by alcohol .
Hugo O'Neil was a thin man with a baby face complexion of 38 years . A family man with three children when he was on the waggon , but off the waggon he was not worth the salt his wife sprinkled on the vegetable soup .
I'll try to explain the two week experience of living inside a refuge with 250 of the hardest dregs in the Docklands of London .
